Boom went the VR6

[hussthebus]

A sad day for me and my baby as she was towed today.

So my VR6s radiator turned on one day.. thought nothing of it. Day by day the radiator stayed on longer and longer after i turned her off. Temperature started rising from the normal 90 degrees. My windshield would always go foggy. I knew i had a cooling problem however i didn't know it would be so sudden. After Reading up on VR6s overheating i figured id get it checked out, obviously i didn't do it soon enough as the following day one of the hoses had blown, the usual steam was coming out and everything seemed to fry.

The moral of the story is that DONT WAIT... a simple tightening of a hose or a replacement can save you big bucks.

Thankfully the boys at Golf City VIC had it fixed within 4 hours of getting it, they also found another problem, the electronic water pump had failed causing the preassure to build up = BOOM.

[Umai Naa!!]

Pretty normal problems.

The windscreen fogging up may suggest that your heater core is leaking.

[hussthebus]

I think it was because there was a pool of coolant chilling on top of the transmission as well.

[Jmac]

I would role with the heater core call,check your carpets mate
Cheers
Jmac

[hussthebus]

Cheers lads, you were correct. Patched up the problem, no more fog

[Water Boy]

Do Golf City fix cars aswell as wreck them?

[hussthebus]

Do Golf City fix cars aswell as wreck them?

Initially i wanted to take it to AudVolk in clayton, they had a one month wait and wasn't prepared to wait that long with a blown hose. Golf City gave me the option to use new or used parts, went with new and they had it fixed with no problems.